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Sahara **** (1943, Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea, Richard Nugent, Louis Mercier, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 3197

Humphrey Bogart stars in director Zoltan Korda’s sterling 1943 wartime thriller Sahara as an American tank commander called Sergeant Joe Gunn in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War Two. Separated from their […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Sacco & Vanzetti ****½ (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3196

Director Giuliano Montaldo’s splendidly acted, provocative, sterling 1971 biopic of 1920s Italian-born US immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté), who are tired on trumped-up charges of robbery and murder […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Children of the Damned *** (1964, Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Patrick Wymark, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 3195

Director Anton M Leader’s 1964 further Sixties adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos is a less successful, but still intriguing and thoughtful, thematic sequel follow-up to Village of the Damned (1960). […]

Dec, 29

Village of the Damned ** (1995, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 3194

In a village in Marin County, everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up six hours later, ten women, including a virgin, are pregnant. Nine months after, there are ten lookalike babies all with white […]

Dec, 29

Village of the Damned **** (1960, George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 3193

‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]

Dec, 29

Glory **** (1989, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Jihmi Kennedy, Donovan Leitch Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3192

Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]

Dec, 29

Faces ***** (1968, John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver, Darlene Conley) – Classic Movie Review 3191

Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1968 improvised account of the failing marriage of a California wealthy middle-aged, middle-class couple, Richard and Maria Forst (John Marley and Lynn Carlin), is deservedly considered one of his finest and most […]

Dec, 29

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